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Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Sweden - August 2019

Ms Judith Gough CMG has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden in succession to Mr David Cairns.

• From: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Published: 18 June 2019

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Ms Judith Gough CMG has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden.

Ms Judith Gough CMG has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden in succession to Mr David Cairns. Ms Gough will take up her appointment during August 2019.

Curriculum vitae

Full name: Judith Gough

2015 to present	Kyiv, Her Majesty’s Ambassador
2013 to 2014	FCO, Director, Eastern Europe & Central Asia
2010 to 2012	Tbilisi, Her Majesty’s Ambassador
2008 to 2010	FCO, Deputy Head, Security Policy Group
2007 to 2008	FCO, Deputy Director, Shared Services
2004 to 2007	Seoul, Political Counsellor
2002 to 2004	FCO, Head of Strategic Policy Team, Eastern Adriatic Department
2001 to 2002	FCO, Desk Officer, Gibraltar Policy Team
2001	Joined Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1995 to 2001	Trainee and latterly Senior Consultant, Ernst and Young

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Published 18 June 2019